The Winter 2006 Writer/Director’s Forum, a festival of workshop productions of plays featuring new writers and directors, runs Thursday, November 30 – Sunday, December 17 at The Looking Glass Theatre.

The Looking Glass Theatre’s Writer/Director Forum is part of the company’s mission to reflect life on the stage with truth and theatricality while exploring a female vision/aesthetic. The festival is held twice a year at The Looking Glass Theatre. This year’s winter festival features the work of six emerging female directors tackling both classic and new works. Throughout the three-week festival, directors will present a wide range of styles, from a new adaptation of Moliére’s The Misanthrope to a new work by Lauren D. Yee, Danielle Steel Writes Children’s Novels.

Description: Two Internet friends find solace in the fan fiction they are writing based on their favorite TV Sci-fi. When personal lives distract them from what really matters – the story – will their friendship survive to tell the tale?* Week 1 Assistant Director: Elizabeth Irwin, Jacquelyn Honeybourne

Description: If all the world’s a stage, Benny and Mina just want to hide out in the wings for a while. But when their Shakespearean and sexual fantasies suddenly begin showing up in their apartment, hiding doesn’t seem to be an option anymore….* Week 2 Assistant Director: Olivia Mora

Description: What would happen if the legendary romance “authoress” adopted a twelve-year-old Filipino orphan boy and dabbled in children’s books? The Danielle Steel Children’s Series: “…kids have to learn SOMETIME that life doesn’t always go as planned.”The Misanthrope by Moliére